Civil Service Regulation Act, 1956
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Retiring age for civil servants. |
8.—(1) In this section, “the retiring age” means— | |
(a) in relation to a civil servant who is an officer to whom the Act of 1919 applies, sixty years, | ||
(b) in relation to any other civil servant, sixty-five years. | ||
(2) (a) The appropriate authority may, notwithstanding section 5, require any civil servant who is an officer to whom the Act of 1919 applies, and who has attained the age of fifty-five years or any other civil servant who has attained the age of sixty years to retire, and such civil servant shall retire accordingly. | ||
(b) Paragraph (a) of this subsection does not apply to a transferred officer who is an established civil servant. | ||
(3) Every civil servant shall retire on attaining the retiring age. | ||
(4) Notwithstanding anything in the preceding subsections of this section the appropriate authority may, with (provided the appropriate authority is not the Government or the Minister) the consent of the Minister (who may from time to time prescribe such conditions as he thinks fit governing the employment under this subsection of civil servants beyond the normal retiring age)— | ||
(a) direct that the retiring age of an established civil servant may be raised by a period not exceeding three calendar months, | ||
(b) direct that an established civil servant who reaches the retiring age may be retained in the Civil Service until he attains an age not exceeding, in case he is an officer to whom the Act of 1919 applies, sixty-five years or, in any other case, seventy years, and in that case any service rendered by him after the retiring age or, if his retiring age is raised under paragraph (a) of this subsection, his retiring age as so raised shall, notwithstanding anything contained in section 22 of the Superannuation Act, 1936 (No. 39 of 1936), not be reckoned as established service, | ||
(c) direct that the retiring age of a civil servant who is not an established civil servant may be raised to any age not exceeding seventy-five years. | ||
(5) Subsections (1), (2), (3) and (4) of this section do not apply to— | ||
(a) the Master of the High Court, or | ||
(b) a Taxing Master, or | ||
(c) a County Registrar, or | ||
(d) the Registrar of Titles, or | ||
(e) the Registrar of Deeds, if appointed to that Office by the Government under section 7 of the Registration of Title Act, 1942 (No. 26 of 1942), or | ||
(f) a civil servant to whom subsection (5) of section 63 of the Court Officers Act, 1926 (No. 27 of 1926), applies. | ||
(6) Nothing in this section shall be construed as affecting section 10 of the Act of 1859 or the said section 10 as applied by subsection (1) of section 1 of the Act of 1919. |